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audiences to vote for their favorites. "In Kristy I knew I had a subject for a film," White continues, "and I was excited to also include Beverly Mebane Helms, the mother/daughter duo Susan and Sara Frampton, and Kacey Bates Patrick, who was pregnant during the shooting. What surprised me was the abundance of gifts I was given; you learn to trust your subjects and follow your instincts to find the story." Under White's watchful lens, these Southern belles, ranging in ages from their 20s to 50s, talk about what draws them to the woods and to hunting with an unerring tenderness, especially the legacy of tradition passed down through the generations. There's Cuthbert with her father, who first took her hunting when she was five years old. And Helms, caressing her grandmother's well-worn shell bag as she withdraws a shotgun shell. Especially charming is the mother/ daughter Frampton ladies' "donning of the pig socks" as they dress for a hunt together, the easy camaraderie and banter they share, and Susan's vigilant lioness-ready-to-spring backing of her daughter's shot as Sara downs a hog. And Patrick, with her hand caressing her blossoming belly as she says about her unborn son, "In just a few years I hope to be teaching him all the things my dad taught me and have that same close connection." The five women represent about a century of combined hunting experience. That White managed to capture all five on film in the short span of 11 minutes – and tell a compelling story while doing so – is a tribute to her skill as director/producer and that of her co-producer husband. Plus, the birth of this gem of a film was not an easy one: White herself was pregnant during the shooting ("I had two babies gestating," she jokes), and funds from the original grant she had received from the South Carolina Film Commission were waning. "So I turned to kickstarter.com," she says, "and raised more than $5,000 in 30 days." Not a king's ransom, by far, but enough to see SPOR TIN G CL ASSICS 78